Marina Georgiou
Marina is a London-based archivist, curator and workshop facilitator, working at the intersection of DIY, feminist and colonial practices and the archival. She holds an MA in Archive and Records Management from UCL (2023), an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths (2012), and a BA in Fine Art from Middlesex University (2009).
She is a member of the Peckham-based and trans-inclusive Feminist Library Collections group. She has also been a founding member of mother tongues (2018-2023), a research-led project applying decolonial, feminist and queer pedagogies in archival practice, language and translation, and has been a member of the ‘migrated archives’ working group at UCL (2022-2024), raising awareness of displaced archives resulting from Britain’s colonial history.
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LinkedIn FUTURE ARCHIVING, SESSIONS, SPEL, NICOSIA, 2023
In 2023, I was invited by Cerebral Gym to facilitate archival workshops at Sessions, a series of queer happenings that took over the State Gallery of Contemporary Art - SPEL in Nicosia throughout the autumn.
I delivered two workshops. The first one, titled ‘Future Archiving’, invited participants to re-imagine the language and tools for an alternate Cypriot archive rooted in colloquial, intersectional queer and feminist values. The second was a wiki edit-a-thon focused on editing queer and feminist histories.
Sessions is a public programme of queer events that transforms traditional spaces into dynamic arenas for collective expression. Spanning exhibition, live music, poetry, experimental theatre and dance performances, talks, workshops, an open library, parties, and film screenings, Sessions unfolds as a continuous, layered performance.
Cerebral Gym is a curatorial project by Loizos Olympios, an anti-collection of queer printed matter that engages with archival and publishing practices.